How to change public folder to public_html in laravel 8?

Question

I wanna deploy my application on shared hosting on Cpanel where the primary document root has public_html but Laravel project public

Answer 1

You have to follow 2 steps to change your application's public folder to public_html then your can deploy it or anything you can do :)

1. Edit \App\Providers\AppServiceProvider register() method & add this code .

    // set the public path to this directory
    $this->app->bind('path.public', function() {
        return base_path().'/public_html';
    });
   

2. Open server.php you can see this code

   if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/public'.$uri)) {
      return false;
   }
   
   require_once __DIR__.'/public/index.php';
   

Just Replace it with :

  if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/public_html'.$uri)) {
   return false;
  }

  require_once __DIR__.'/public_html/index.php';

Then serve your application with php artisan serve, you also can deploy it on your Cpanel shared hosting where primary document root public_html